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Posted at 3:32 p.m., Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Airline capacity to Hawai'i expected to fall this winter

Advertiser Staff

Airline capacity on flights to Hawai'i is expected to fall to 2.58 million seats this winter, a 1.2 percent decline from the same period last year, according to a report released today by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Domestic scheduled service to Hawai'i for the December-February period is expected to climb to 1.9 million air seats, a 3.4 percent increase over last winter. U.S. West seats are expected to rise 4.4 percent during the period, reaching 1.64 million. U.S. East air seats are forecast to fall by 2.3 percent to 268,807.

International air seats are forecast to fall 12.2 percent to 672,381. Air seats from Japan are projected to fall 10.8 percent to 422,963.